Whether you seek a valuable, experienced employee, a proven communications consultant or a dependable freelancer you’ve come to the right place. After reading the below and following the links provided, I want you to see that I — Mike Driehorst — possess the solid strategic thinking and proven communications skills you seek. My experience includes:

  • Strategic planning and program development. Experienced in developing public relations – including social media – recommendations. Also have developed more encompassing marketing communications plans.
  • Variety of public relations services with 14+ years experience, emphasis in media relations
  • Social media involvement, monitoring and outreach since 2005
  • Successful work with B2B and B2C markets, locally and nationally, as well as experience with media in the Far East, Latin America and Europe. Industry experience is varied, and includes residential new construction and home improvement; commercial architecture; plastics; national and regional business associations; OEM and aftermarket automotive; minor league hockey team; health care and medical device; and a host of others.
  • Four+ years experience as newspaper reporter with three Northwest Ohio newspapers early in my career. Periodically freelanced since 1994, including contributing to the Adrian College Contact Alumni Magazine.

If, after reading this page you are interested in connecting with me as a potential employer or if I can be of service to you as a freelancer, you can you can contact me via:

  • Email
  • IM: Yahoo! – miked918; GTalk – mike.driehorst; or AIM – mcdriehorst
  • Telephone number: See my resume

In addition to my blog and my resume, you can learn more about me at LinkedIn, Del.icio.us, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr. These also are on my FriendFeed.

For Potential Employers

If you do seek a proven PR and marketing communications professional with a solid work ethic, thank you for giving me a look. You’ve already seen a summary of what I offer above. Now, here’s what I seek:

A full-time, management-level position that offers the freedom for strategic planning and tactical responsibilities while enabling me to make a positive communications and overall business impact for employer.

To learn more about my experience and qualifications, you can download my resume.

For Potential Clients

As you can see above, I possess a range of strategic and tactical capabilities and services for you to call upon. Be assured that I will not do work for companies that are competitors. If such a situation comes up, I will either turn down the work, or seek permission from the first company to do the work.

Below are just some examples of what I offer:

Strategic Services

  • Research and analysis
  • Planning, proposal development, long- and short-term program recommendations
  • Media monitoring: traditional/offline and online/social media
  • Competitor tracking/intelligence

Connecting

  • Media relations/media outreach
  • Social media engagement
  • Media list development
  • Social media research and target audience development

Messaging/Writing

  • News releases
  • Journalistic writing (news and feature stories, columns)
  • Copy proofing and editing
  • Web sites
  • Advertisements (offline and online)
  • Brochures
  • Direct mail and Email

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Be sure to check back as I will periodically add other expert resources.